Qualla: Abadia de Goiás https://qualla.com/abadia-de-goias en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:25:05 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/b/abadia-de-goias-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Abadia de Goiás https://qualla.com/abadia-de-goias Abadia de Goiás: Introduction https://qualla.com/abadia-de-goias/ Photo credit Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0. Abadia de Goiás comes first in every alphabetical list of Goiás's municipalities, which is the least interesting thing about it and the only thing it chose. Twenty-seven kilometres west of Goiânia, at the outer edge of the state capital's metropolitan sprawl, this town of some nineteen thousand people did not exist as a municipality until 1995. Two years later, the federal nuclear commission finished building a structure on the hills nearby to hold the contaminated remains of a disaster that had happened somewhere else. Nearly forty years on, it is still there, and it will be there long after everyone now alive.

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/b/abadia-de-goias-wp/6vhb-abadia-de-goi-s-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Abadia de Goiás: A Sunday in September https://qualla.com/abadia-de-goias/ Photo credit Wufosan, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 13 September 1987, two men went looking for scrap in the ruins of a radiotherapy clinic in Goiânia that had been abandoned with its equipment still inside. Roberto dos Santos Alves and Wagner Mota Pereira were scavengers, and what they found looked like a heavy lead-and-steel ...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/b/abadia-de-goias-wp/6vhb-abadia-de-goi-s-a-sunday-in-september.mp3 0:06 2 full Abadia de Goiás: The Woman Who Stopped It https://qualla.com/abadia-de-goias/ Photo credit Wufosan, CC BY-SA 4.0. It was Maria Gabriela Ferreira, Devair's wife, who worked out that the people around her were falling ill in the same way at the same time. Days after the vomiting and burns began, she took what remained of the source across the city to a public health clinic and made someone loo...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/b/abadia-de-goias-wp/6vhb-abadia-de-goi-s-the-woman-who-stopped-it.mp3 0:06 3 full Abadia de Goiás: What the Cleanup Left https://qualla.com/abadia-de-goias/ Photo credit Wufosan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Decontaminating Goiânia meant taking the city apart in places. Houses were demolished, topsoil stripped, furniture, clothing and rubble sealed into drums and containers. All of it had to go somewhere, and somewhere turned out to be here. The choice was fiercely contested — reside...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/b/abadia-de-goias-wp/6vhb-abadia-de-goi-s-what-the-cleanup-left.mp3 0:06 4 full Abadia de Goiás: Arithmetic of a Half-Life https://qualla.com/abadia-de-goias/ Photo credit Wufosan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Caesium-137 decays with a half-life of just over thirty years. Since 1987 the material in those vaults has passed one half-life and started on the next, which means it is now roughly half as radioactive as the day it was buried — and will still be a quarter as radioactive around ...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/b/abadia-de-goias-wp/6vhb-abadia-de-goi-s-arithmetic-of-a-half-life.mp3 0:06 5 full Abadia de Goiás: The Town Around It https://qualla.com/abadia-de-goias/ Photo credit Wufosan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Everything above is what Abadia de Goiás is known for, and almost none of it is what living here is like. The town became a municipality in 1995 by plebiscite, carved out of pieces of Goiânia, Trindade, Guapó and Aragoiânia, and it has grown fast since — the 2022 census counted 1...

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